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Gavin Andresen, Chief Scientist, Bitcoin Foundation, on the centre stage during Day 3 of the 2014 Web Summit in the RDS, Dublin, | Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Andresen | Credit: By Stephen McCarthy / SPORTSFILE / Web Summit - https://www.flickr.com/photos/websummit/15700313096/, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=66367176 | License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Gavin Andresen develops the first Bitcoin Faucet

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Gavin Andresen developed the first Bitcoin Faucet in 2010, which gave out five bitcoins per person. The rewards were dispensed at regular time intervals as rewards for completing simple tasks such as captcha completion.
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